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C. RUTENBERG.

GARMENT.

(Application filed July 27, 1899.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,440, dated December19, 1899. Application filed July 27, 1899. Serial No. 725,299. (Nomodel.)

T on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES RUTENBERG, acitizen of the United States,residing at New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State ofNew York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garments, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ladies garments, and by means of thisinvention a garment is obtained combining an outer waist or body portionwith an inner corset portion detachably connected thereto, and thecombined garment is adapted to sit properly or make a neat fit, as setforth in the following specification and claims and illustrated in theannexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the garmentpartly open. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the body part of Fig. 1.

In the drawings is shown a garment (30TH- prising a Waist or bodyportion 1 and inner corset-sections 2, each detachably secured to itsrespective side of the waist. The outer waist 1 has a lining 3, partlydetached or free from the waist, so as to leave flaps or loose portions4. The inner corset-sections are secured to the free edges of theseflaps. These flaps aid in giving a correct fit or enabling the corset tosit neatly to the figure and enable the corset to be readily attachedand detached. The corset-sections are secured to the flaps by suitabledetachable connections, such as buttons, clasps, spring-studs, or likemeans. In the case of buttons it has been found practical to put thebuttons on the corset-sections and the buttonholes on the liningorflaps. The sections 2, with buttons 5, being detached leave the waistand lining in condition for being readily washed. The corset-sections,of course, are not adapted for washing, as understood, thesecorset-sections having corset-steels, as at 8, applied thereto forbracing and staying the sections, whereby the waist carries its owncorset to brace and stay the wearer,

The fronts of the corset are pointed, as seen at 7, to extend downwardbelow the waist of the wearer, and such fronts have in addition to thesteel stays, as at 8, the front clasp-fastenings composed of studs andeyes, as at 9.

Each corset-section has an elastic gusset at its lower edge portion.This elastic or rubber insertion enables the corset to fit snuglyWithout requiring any lacing or like adjustment, and such elastic alsoenables the corset to give or respond to movements of the person.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A ladys waist having a lining 3 provided at opposite sides of thewaist with loose flaps 4: unattached to the latter, and two independ entcorset-sections 2 having brace-stays 8 and front clasp-fastenings 9, anddetachably connected, respectively, to said loose flaps and by saidclasp-fastenings adapted to connect together at the front of and beconcealed by the waist when it is closed at the front of the wearer,substantially as described.

'2. A waist having a lining provided at opposite sides with loose flaps,two independent corset-sections provided with inserted elastic gussetsand brace-stays and detachably connected, respectively, to said looseflaps, and front fastenings for connecting the said stayedcorset-sections, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

CHARLES RUTENBERG. Witnesses:

w. o. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

